Men's basketball vs. Maryland

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02/14/2018 Added

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Ronnie Green highlights just a few recent achievements of Husker students and faculty, including the speech and debate team's seventh straight Big Ten title, graduate students assisting Lincoln High School achieve recent recognition, faculty finding clues to the cause of inflammatory bowel disease and collaboration with the Game and Parks Commission on land management strategies.

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[00:00:02.210]Welcome back to our
[00:00:03.043]Huskers Sports Network Studios.
[00:00:04.130]Greg Sharpe, glad to be joined by
[00:00:05.534]the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:09.040]Valentine's Day, big day tomorrow,
[00:00:11.030]get out there and get that shopping done guys
[00:00:12.730]if you haven't gotten after it.
[00:00:14.170]Husker fans certainly have a love affair
[00:00:15.870]with their sports teams and we're so excited,
[00:00:17.880]I know you are as well, about our
[00:00:19.090]men's and women's success so far this year.
[00:00:21.900]You're gonna talk about some other
[00:00:22.900]successes that have been going on
[00:00:24.500]at the university this semester, what do you have for us?
[00:00:26.790]Well, Greg, it's great to be here
[00:00:28.430]tonight and to be kind of celebrating this season,
[00:00:31.330]with our men's team and our women's team also doing great.
[00:00:35.060]It's been great to see that this year.
[00:00:36.870]And so, big game tonight against Maryland.
[00:00:39.810]It's just that, you know, you better
[00:00:40.690]get out and buy all your heart shaped stuff tomorrow.
[00:00:43.220]But, we do have a lot be thankful for at the university.
[00:00:48.080]Everyday, things happen that impress, you know, me.
[00:00:52.050]I hear about them, I hear about the success
[00:00:54.310]that our faculty and our student
[00:00:55.810]and our alums are having here locally and around the world.
[00:00:59.230]And, you know, just in recent times,
[00:01:01.262]in the last week or so our speech and debate team
[00:01:04.860]won their seventh consecutive Big Ten title late in January.
[00:01:09.740]So big deal for them, continue to have strong excellence.
[00:01:13.370]They're in our Communication Studies program
[00:01:15.520]and Speech and Debate, led by senior co-captain
[00:01:18.580]Mattison Merritt, from here in Lincoln,
[00:01:21.070]who was named the top individual
[00:01:22.960]in the all conference tournament, so big deal
[00:01:25.525]on a repeated level for our speech and debate students.
[00:01:30.560]Graduate students, we have a group that has been working
[00:01:34.789]through a course that they're taking on improving
[00:01:38.830]high schools and they worked very closely
[00:01:41.740]with LHS here in Lincoln, Lincoln High School,
[00:01:45.300]to write reports about them, and recently,
[00:01:49.530]Lincoln High has been recognized
[00:01:51.820]as of one eight "Gold Level" schools of opportunity
[00:01:54.990]in the US, just announced here in Lincoln
[00:01:57.070]a few weeks for Lincoln High, so things like that
[00:02:00.660]happening on our student's side and our faculty,
[00:02:02.860]Amanda Ramer-Tait, one of our professors
[00:02:04.897]in Food Science and Technology in our Food Innovation Center
[00:02:08.240]out at Nebraska Innovation Campus,
[00:02:10.530]just recently, uncovered clues to the cause of
[00:02:13.660]Inflammatory Bowel disease, an affliction that affects
[00:02:17.460]a lot of people around the world.
[00:02:20.550]And Lindsey Wezolon, who is a research associate
[00:02:24.810]with the Nebraska Cooperative Fish
[00:02:26.270]and Wildlife research co-op unit,
[00:02:28.130]we call it in our school of natural resources,
[00:02:30.710]helped to develop a website based simulator
[00:02:34.920]for pheasant habitat to help the game and parks commission,
[00:02:38.720]here in our state, which we're partners with through
[00:02:41.070]the university and through our natural resources efforts
[00:02:43.870]with land management to improve pheasant habitats.
[00:02:46.460]So yeah, faculty are always doing things like that
[00:02:49.490]that have a real world impact, day to day.
[00:02:52.650]Just a few of the recent highlights
[00:02:54.550]that we're proud of at the university.
[00:02:56.280]Very good, I know this is not going
[00:02:57.920]unnoticed, a lot of third party rankings are out there
[00:03:00.966]reveling about the university and the things it does.
[00:03:03.860]You got some more of those that
[00:03:04.960]have come down the pike here recently, what can you tell us?
[00:03:07.040]Well, you know, we like to say that
[00:03:09.730]we're in the middle of everywhere and everything
[00:03:11.280]here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[00:03:13.170]and we are, but we're recognized in lots of ways.
[00:03:17.110]In various ranking criteria for higher education,
[00:03:20.285]in the US and abroad, world certainly
[00:03:23.470]takes notice of us on a daily basis.
[00:03:25.850]Our online education programs, recently recognized by
[00:03:29.670]US news and reports "2018 best online programs"
[00:03:34.030]listing in January, very proud of that.
[00:03:36.600]Our online Bachelor of Science in Applied Science
[00:03:39.770]and our Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education
[00:03:42.640]in a Mobile Society ranked in the top ten percent
[00:03:45.350]of all programs, like that, here in the US and abroad.
[00:03:50.000]We've ranked second in the Big Ten for both
[00:03:52.430]our online Master of Business Administration MBA
[00:03:56.230]and our online graduate education programs
[00:03:58.480]for teachers and school administrators.
[00:04:01.040]So, very proud of those kind of rankings
[00:04:03.040]for our curricular offerings, and then, once again
[00:04:06.650]we've been recognized recently for providing
[00:04:09.540]a top notch general, overall educationism institution,
[00:04:13.380]as a great value by both Kiplinger's
[00:04:15.810]and by the Princeton Review, which are used by students
[00:04:18.920]as they look at universities, thinking about
[00:04:21.560]where they will pursue their education.
[00:04:23.370]So, world's taken notice of us and they should.
[00:04:27.060]Great momentum here in early 2018
[00:04:29.120]and I know you're not gonna have any plans
[00:04:31.040]to slow this down, you want to keep it rolling.
[00:04:32.730]That's absolutely right.
[00:04:33.840]You know, we talk about how we're
[00:04:35.975]fighting a few budget woes.
[00:04:38.590]I think people know that out their, the state is dealing
[00:04:41.700]with some shortfalls in revenue and we're playing
[00:04:44.210]our part as a partner in that,
[00:04:45.709]but that's not slowing us down.
[00:04:47.340]I mean, we are continuing to grow our enrollment,
[00:04:50.160]just saw our Spring numbers up again
[00:04:52.220]for the spring semester, our fall numbers are looking great
[00:04:56.040]for a significant increase, we believe, in enrollment
[00:04:59.733]for the flagship campus and we're all guns out, blazing,
[00:05:04.578]moving forward to not arrest any of our momentum,
[00:05:08.450]here at the states flagship land-grant university.
[00:05:10.950]Fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing.
[00:05:12.470]You bet. Go Big Red!
[00:05:13.860]More halftime, coming up next.

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